Samuel McKee (1774)

Samuel McKee (13 October 1774-16 October 1826) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-KY 2) from 1809 to 1813 (succeeding John Boyle and preceding Henry Clay) and from KY-7 from 1813 to 1817 (preceding George Robertson).

Biography
Samuel McKee was born in Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia in 1774, and he became a lawyer in Somerset, Kentucky in 1800. He served in the State House from 1802 to 1808 and in the US House of Representatives from 1809 to 1817, and he served on the staff of William Henry Harrison during the War of 1812 after helping to provoke the war. After the war, President James Monroe appointed him as part of a committee to clear the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers of obstructions, and he served until his death in 1826.